Guido Giannettini (August 22, 1930 – May 12, 2003) was an Italian secret agent.
Activism
Guido Giannettini was born August 22, 1930, in Taranto. In 1954 he joined the student association
Young Italy
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in Naples. He was active in the
OAS
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support networks, and arrested in 1961 in Madrid along with
Pierre Lagaillarde
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Lagaillarde was a lawyer at Blida in Algeria, a reserve officer of the paratroopers, and an e ...
.
Giannettini wrote for the newspapers ''
Il Roma'' and ''
Il Secolo d'Italia'', as well as ''
L'Italiano
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'', headed by
Pino Romualdi (
MSI). In 1963-64, he started to write in the ''
Rivista Militare'', a journal of the Italian military general staff, and participated in various
NATO
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meetings.
Giannettini participated in a
colloquium on "
revolutionary warfare
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" on 3–5 May 1965 in Rome (''Parco dei Principi'' hotel), which was organized by the Institute Alberto-Pollio, "quasi-exclusively financed by the
SIFAR
Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare (abbreviated SISMI, ''Military Intelligence and Security Service'') was the military intelligence intelligence agency, agency of Italy from 1977–2007.
With the reform of the Italian Inte ...
"
[Monzat, 1992, p.91] military intelligence agency. Giannettini presented there one of the main reports.
[ According to René Monzat, "this colloquium provided the theoretical framework for the strategy of tension."][Monzat, 1992, p.92]
Following this colloquium, in which about 20 students participated (among them, Stefano Delle Chiaie
Stefano Delle Chiaie (13 September 1936, Caserta – 10 September 2019, Rome) was an Italian neo-fascist terrorist. He was the founder of ''Avanguardia Nazionale'', a member of '' Ordine Nuovo'', and founder of Lega nazionalpopolare. He went on ...
and Mario Michele Merlino[), Giannettini and other intervenants were hired by the Italian secret services.][ In April 1968, these students went on a trip to Greece of 60 students from the "League of Greek Fascist Students in Italy" and of 51 Italian ]neo-fascist
Neo-fascism is a post-World War II far-right ideology that includes significant elements of fascism. Neo-fascism usually includes ultranationalism, racial supremacy, populism, authoritarianism, nativism, xenophobia, and anti-immigration s ...
students, organized by the Greek junta.[ According to Frédéric Laurent, author of ''L'Orchestre noir'' (p. 75), "more than half of the Italians (...) returned from Athens suddenly converted to Anarchism, Leftism, or to ]Communism
Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a ...
, preferably Chinese".
In 1966, Giannettini published with Pino Rauti
Giuseppe Umberto "Pino" Rauti (19 November 1926 – 2 November 2012) was an Italian fascist and politician who was a leading figure on the radical right for many years, although Rauti was describing himself as a "leftist" and "non-fascist." Invo ...
"Red Hands on the Armed Forces" (''Le mani rosse sulle forze armate''). In 1969, he participated in an Italian military delegation to West Germany
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, to prepare the purchase of Leopard tanks.[Monzat, 1992, p.93] According to the Swiss brochure made by friends of Giannettini, he was an important agent of the SIFAR and then of the SID ("Agent Z").
During the Parliamentary Commission on Terrorism headed by Senator Giovanni Pellegrino
Giovanni Pellegrino (born 5 January 1939 in Lecce) is an Italian politician.
Born in Lecce and a lawyer by profession, he was a Senator of the Republic from 1990 with the Italian Communist Party and the Democrats of the Left to 2001. He also pres ...
, the Italian Minister of Defense officially recognized before parliament that Giannettini had been on the Italian secret services' pay-roll.[ Giorgio Freda, who was acquitted in the trial concerning the 1969 bombings, gave public marks of trust to Giannettini.][
According to the magistrate Guido Salvini, in charge of the investigations concerning the 1969 ]Piazza Fontana bombing
The Piazza Fontana bombing ( it, Strage di Piazza Fontana) was a terrorist attack that occurred on 12 December 1969 when a bomb exploded at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fonta ...
, "Guido Giannettini had contacts with Yves Guérin-Sérac
Yves Guérin-Sérac, born Yves Guillou (also known as Jean-Robert de Guernadec or Ralf; 2 December 1926 – 9 March 2022) was a French anti-Communist Roman Catholic activist, former officer of the French army and veteran of the First Indochina Wa ...
in Portugal ever since 1964."[Judge Guido Salvini hearing before the Italian Parliamentary Commission of investigation on terrorism in Italy, 9th session of 12 February 1997]
9ª SEDUTA - MERCOLEDI 12 FEBBRAIO 1997
''Presidenza del Presidente PELLEGRINO'' , quoted by Daniele Ganser, ''NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe'', , 2005, p.120)
References
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1930 births
2003 deaths